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Sen. Jon Ossoff is an easy Exhibit A in the “fact checking” tilt at PolitiFact. In his first Senate run in 2020, PolitiFact’s Tom Kertscher threw a “Pants On Fire” attack at his opponent Sen. David Perdue for rudely labeling Ossoff a “socialist.” Now his GOP opponent is "False" for saying he cast the "deciding vote" on the Inflation Reduction Act. (He did.) 

The "fact checkers" looked ridiculous abroad! The former editor of PolitiFact claimed "we've been accused of bias even when we've made every effort to be fair and nonpartisan." Our studies at NewsBusters have shown repeatedly that PolitiFact has a dramatic bias in favor of the Democrats. 

Ahead of America 250, PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson penned an article on Monday chronicling what he considered to be eleven instances where presidents “shaded reality as they shaped US history.” Unfortunately for Jacobson, in some instances it was he who did the shading, especially when he considered some of the nation’s most defining foreign policy moments.

PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough was at it again with more Senate campaign cherry-picking shenanigans on Friday. This time McCullough focused on Iowa Republican Ashley Hinson’s recent ad that accused Democrat Josh Turek of supporting sex changes for minors. McCullough called it “false,” but his actual article suggested it was not quite that simple.

PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough has his priorities out of order. On Wednesday, he penned an article declaring GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton “false” for calling his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, a vegan. However, he could have rated Paxton “half-true” or written another article labeling Talarico “false” because Paxton also cited Talarico’s previous comments about there being six…

On Friday, PolitiFact writers Samantha Putterman and Maria Briceno gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio a “half true” rating for his claim that the United States is not the reason that Cuba is experiencing 22-hour blackouts.

Ohio’s gubernatorial campaign has kicked into gear, and so has PolitiFact with its weird partisan takes. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was tagged as “Mostly False” for an ad against his Democrat opponent that said that in 2020, “Amy Acton called off Ohio’s election at the last minute.” She did as Ohio's health director. That's true. But Gov. Mike DeWine claimed it was his call, so it's…

On the very last day of April, PolitiFact finally dared to upset their liberal donors and found a Democrat to be “Mostly False” for the first time in 2026. The day before brought another shocker: PolitiFact rated a Trump claim as "Mostly True," the first rating on the True side since October 2024.

We're almost to the end of April, and the liberals at PolitiFact have still not found one single Democrat utterance that is tagged "Mostly False" or worse in 2026. Instead, they're rushing to defense of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in the aftermath of the Correspondents Dinner shooting.

PolitiFact’s unwillingness to give Republicans “true” ratings for true statements continued on Monday when Samantha Putterman only gave Rep. Brandon Gill a “half true” rating for his true claim that “The Dignity Act is mass amnesty.”

Is it true that President Trump’s threats to hit Iranian power plants constituted a potential war crime? According to PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson, that depends on what day of the week it is. On April 7, Jacobson penned a piece that suggested Fox News’s Jesse Watters was probably correct in saying they would not be given historical precedents in places like Iraq, but Jacobson still refused to…

On "International Fact Checking Day," we discuss how PolitiFact can't find any Democrats saying false things with Matthew Hoy, author of the new book Fact-Checking Frauds: How Fact-Checkers Distract, Deceive, and Distort Our Politics. What tactics do they use? There's obvious selection bias -- in targets, in fact claims, and in expert testimony.

PolitiFact was demoralized by the idea that Donald Trump was re-elected in 2024, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped rigging their “fact checking” apparatus against the Republicans. What’s truly amazing about the first quarter of 2026 is that the number of occasions they have rated Democrats as “Mostly False” or worse is at zero.

When a military expert’s opinion is different than a politician’s, how are fact-checkers like PolitiFact supposed to adjudicate the politician’s claim? If a Friday article by Zoe Weyand is anything to go by, the answer is not at all, or at least if the politician is Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, Weyand's standard for giving Warren a “true” rating for a recent claim she made about…